# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S234
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

234 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

35-60A

To Permit Lutheran Church— Canada
to Submit Overtures

WHEREAS, Lutheran Church~ Canada, comprising Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod Districts in Canada, has been au-
thorized to operate as ‘‘an administrative unit” (1969, 4-28); and

WHEREAS, The Synod in convention has frequently passed
resolutions affecting Lutheran Church—Canada, e.g., 1962,
6-36: 1969, 3-17: 4-13: 1971, 3-09: 1978, 2-41: and

WHEREAS, Lutheran Church—Canada has been asked to
report to conventions of the Synod but has not been granted
the privilege of submitting overtures: therefore be it

Resolved, That Lutheran Church-- Canada through conven-
tion action be authorized to submit overtures to a convention
of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod: and be it further

Resolved. That Bylaw 1.27 a 2 be amended accordingly.

Board of Directors,
Alberta and British Columbia District
Norman W. Eifert, Secretary

Identical or similar:

5-60B

Bethlehem, Vancouver, B.C. (vacant)

3-61A

To Restore Overture Rights
to Individuals

WHEREAS, In the past the privilege of presenting overtures
to synodical and District conventions was exercised by indi-
viduals holding membership in a congregation belonging to
the Synod: and

WHEREAS, This privilege no longer is granted such indi-
viduals but is now restricted to member congregations and to
certain other groups and individuals listed in Bylaw 1.27 a 2: and

WHEREAS, The alleged abuse of the privilege of presenting
overtures by some was offered as a reason for depriving all
individuals of this privilege: and

WHEREAS, Such alleged abuse and misuse of a privilege by
some is not a valid reason for depriving others of the same
privilege: and

WHEREAS, The Bylaws could contain regulations to control
the misuse and abuse by individuals in exercising the right to
offer overtures to a synodical or District convention: therefore
be it

Resolved. That Bylaw 1.27 a 2 be amended to read as follows
(additions and changes in italics):

2. Overtures are recommendations in the form of
proposed resolutions requesting action on the part of
the synodical or District convention.

Overtures to a synodical or District convention
may be submitted [omit “only”] by a member con-
gregation of the Synod, a convention or Board of
Directors of a District, an official District pastoral
or teachers conference, the faculty of an educational
institution of the Synod, a board or commission of the
Synod listed in Sections 2.03 and 2.05, or a committee
established by a prior synodical or District convention.

Communicant members in good standing of member
congregations may also present overtures to synodical
andjor District conventions subject to the following
regulation: Overtures presented by individuals must

have a minimum of twenty (20) signers. who must be
members of a minimum of ten (10) different congre-
gations.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Republic, Wash.

Adolph Suhn, President
Fred O. Heckly, Secretary

Identical or similar:

5-61B

Messiah, Detroit, Mich. C. Hoffmeyer

5-62
To Change Nominating Procedures
for President and First Vice-President

WHEREAS, Congregations of the Synod are requested to
submit nominating ballots for the office of President and First
Vice-President of the Synod prior to the election of these
officers: and

WHEREAS, Nominations for the office of President and First
Vice-President of the Synod and all other members of the
synodical Praesidium are to be obtained from the clergy roster
of the Synod; and

WHEREAS, There are over 7,000 names on the clergy roster
from which congregations can select names to be placed in
nomination for the office of President and First Vice-President
of the Synod: and

WHEREAS, Congregations do not always have sufficient
information to make a decision as to which person(s) should be
placed in nomination for the office of President and First Vice-
President of the Synod: therefore be ii

Resolved. That The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod,
meeting in convention in Anaheim, amend the Handbook pro-
cedures for nominating candidates to the office of President
and First Vice-President of the Synod to include the following:

1. Each District of the Synod, during that District's
regular convention held the year prior to the election
of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Synod,
shall elect not more than 10 nominees from those
eligible to be placed in nomination for the office of
President of the Synod and 10 eligible nominees for
the office of First Vice-President of the Synod.

2. Each District shall forward the names of these
nominees to the Secretary of the Synod, who in turn
shall —

a) Determine the top 10 nominees for the office of
President of the Synod and the top 10 nominees for
the office of First Vice-President of the Synod:

b) Obtain from each of the above persons a brief
biography and a position paper on issues currently
facing the Synod:

c) Mail these names along with a brief biography
and position paper on issues facing the Synod to the
congregations of the Synod.

d) Mail this information at least 3 months prior
to the due date of the congregations’ nominating ballot
for President and First Vice-President of the Synod.

3. Congregations are in no way bound to select
their nominees for President and First Vice-President
of the Synod from this list but are still free to nominate
eligible candidates of their own choosing: and be it
further

Resolved, That the Districts of the Synod be encouraged
to follow a similar process for selecting nominees for the praesi-
dium of the District, initiating the process at the Circuit level.

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
Putnam Valley, N. Y.

John Lucker, President
Anne Deede, Secretary
James A. Jaekel, Pastor

5-63
To Amend Bylaw 2.129 on Nominations

for President and First Vice-President

WHEREAS, There has been some misunderstanding con-
cerning applicability of the historical position of The Lutheran